HEART TO HEART HOSPICE were around 750,000 people receiving hospice care , now it ' s more like one and a half million . So definitely there ' s been a change ," Lumsdon says . " When our clinicians identify an unmet need , whether physical or emotional , and refer a patient to the hospice , what we hear over and over again is , " I wish I ' d known about this sooner ".

There is a natural fear surrounding what a hospice is , but Lumsdon explains that it doesn ' t have to be this way . " I think that to accept what the hospice is , is to have to face all the things that you ' ve been fighting against , whether you ' re the patient or the family member . People develop these coping mechanisms like , " well , the cancer hasn ' t spread yet , so we ' re still okay ". Accepting hospice care unwinds all the coping , and you have to reconcile that there is an end , and it ' s on the horizon ."

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